The interest in the term ‘XRP’ has reached its highest point in more than two years, as the price of the third-biggest cryptoasset by market capitalization has more than doubled in a week.
According to Google Trends, the interest in this Ripple-affiliated project is now highest it has been since the late September 2018. The only time it was higher than the level seen in 2018, was during the December 2017-January 2018 peak.
Interest in XRP in the past 12 months:
We can also compare this to the interest expressed in bitcoin (BTC), which stands as a giant (the red line) over XRP (the blue line) according to the chart below. BTC also saw its peak during the January 2018 frenzy, spiking again in mid-October, and reaching the current level that it previously saw in late June 2019.
And as the XRP price was rising to its highest point since May 2018 (USD 0.765), crypto analytics firm Santiment noted that “the amount of unique addresses transacting on the XRP network in a single day (24,408) was the highest output since May 1st.”
Furthermore, XRP rose to the position of the second most popular page on CoinGecko.
$XRP top buyers on Coinbase down 30% in 15mins. pic.twitter.com/97mohlaBT3
— Hsaka (@HsakaTrades) November 24, 2020
That said, it followed that with a quick comeback, currently (14:55 UTC) trading at USD 0.667, after seeing a 23% rise in a day, 121% rise in a week, and 168% in a month. It’s still lower than the USD 0.766 it reached today.
But it’s not really clear what has been driving this demand in the first place, as is the case with many other rallying altcoins also.
Among recent events, Ripple announced their partnership with the UK-based financial services company MoneyNetint. Additionally, Ripple Labs filed a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month, for a new product dubbed Paystring – “intended to cover the categories of electronic financial services, namely, monetary services for receiving and disbursing remittances and monetary gifts in fiat currencies and virtual currencies over a computer network and for exchanging fiat currencies and virtual currencies over a computer network,” as the filling said.
Ripple could also have benefited from the success of their partners.
It’s the Oh-man-bitcoin-is-so-expensive-but-hey-that-XRP-sure-looks-cheap-I-have-no-idea-what-it-is-but-I’ll-buy-some-of-that pump
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— ₿rooke (@bitcoinmom) November 24, 2020
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More reactions:
Trust me when I tell you that I absolutely hate $XRP and it belongs in the trash.
But the market doesn’t care about my feelings. My feelings don’t make money either.
Oh my god, I take back everything I’ve ever said about Ripple. Brad Chaddinghouse was always my friend.
— Loma (@LomahCrypto) November 24, 2020
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Look I get it, you can trade $XRP and make money, congratulations. I’m sure there is also money to be made in like liquefying orphans as fuel for street lamps or something, but you have to have a line you are not willing to cross.
— kain.eth (@kaiynne) November 24, 2020